Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boat campaign. For a time-the worst time for the Allies-the subs had everything their way. Stronger escorts, improved depth charges, air attack, many secret devices then bested the U-boats. Now that the packs have returned with some new tricks of their own, Allied losses will rise for a while...
...plain that the curtain would rise on Act I-the Foreign Secretaries-in an atmosphere compounded about equally of good will and doubt. The setting of Act II -the Heads of State-would largely be determined as Act I was written...
Down Industrials. More people are earning enough to pay premiums quarterly or semiannually. Industrial insurance (the 25?-a-week, door-to-door variety popularly known as "burial insurance") is going down, as other kinds rise. Through August of this year, new industrial insurance was off 7.7% from last year v. a 34.6% rise in ordinary and a 19.1% rise in group business. This trend is good for everybody: industrial insurance nets the companies no more, but is more expensive for the same coverage. Thus it has been a politically fruitful target of insurance haters for 40 years...
While this rise & fall in employment is typical of what will happen in thousands of U.S. plants, not typical is the way the company has dodged the horrific bugaboo now raising the hackles of U.S. businessmen-reconversion cost. The Government will foot the bill (standard practice when it leases a plant). With equal ease, the company will dodge smaller bugaboos. It need not scramble for equipment (WPB will see to that), nor fear that some other company will grab its market while it is reconverting...
...bomb struck the Roma. The crew of the helpless R.A.F. plane saw the Roma quiver, rise slightly in the water, belch smoke from her 'midships superstructure. By good aiming and luck, the bomb had touched off a powder magazine. The forward turrets with their six 15-in. guns nodded and crumpled. The hull broke, made a great V. Twenty-one minutes after the bomb hit the Roma, she sank. She was the first battleship ever sunk at sea by bombing alone...